Georg Weizsäcker
@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social
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📥 1994
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Microeconomist, Behavioral Economist, Author of "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication"
Highly praiseworthy (both the thread and the described 🇩🇪 gov‘t policy)
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Quite a race going on, between supply and demand
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„Trump would have the authority to remove members of the commission running the fund without cause, and the commission would be under no obligation to disclose its procedures or decision-making process for awarding more than a billion dollars“
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Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies: Sources
President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say.
https://abcnews.com/US/trump-poised-drop-irs-suit-launch-17b-weaponization/story?id=132962661
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Al Roth
3 days ago
Today in Washington,at 4:30PM Eastern time, a panel discussion of Moral Economics, in person or streamed live
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/mora...
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Moral Economics: A Book Event at the American Enterprise Institute, May 14 (You're invited, IRL or watch remotely)
https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/moral-economics-book-event-at-american.html
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Eddie Yang
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New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.
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Is it a good idea to end supporting the social, behavioral and economic sciences? (Not just an academic question.)
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3 days ago
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David Ho
4 days ago
The rampant and open corruption and grift are breathtaking.
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„Willing Accomplices: Gazprom & Rosneft‘s Role in the Transport an Indoctrination of Ukraine‘s Children“ Report by Yale School of Public Health
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https://files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/685979f1-6c89-4295-a765-d6fee48357e3
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CRC Rationality & Competition
6 days ago
How competitive neutrality falls short: Our causal analysis reveals that state ownership systematically induces preferential treatment for public hospitals over private ones, a bias that becomes significantly more acute under the pressure of upcoming elections.
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How state ownership biases government support
Schmidt, Tafti & Mang: "State ownership biases government support—evidence from the financial crisis" The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2026, Vol. 00
https://190researchblog.substack.com/p/state-ownership
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A serious worry about LLM papers: who wants to read them? You experience it in reviewing and in the grading of student term papers: once you know (or suspect) that the text was AI generated, you lose most interest in it. The human author is a big key to the perception of a text.
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Labor econ opening in Berlin, deadline 17 May
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Per Engzell
9 days ago
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with
@natewilmers.bsky.social
1/12 Paper:
osf.io/preprints/so...
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Tarik Abou-Chadi
24 days ago
Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the
@wzb.bsky.social
Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.
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Johanna Arlinghaus
8 days ago
Very proud to become part of this excellent network of researchers in economics across different institutions in Berlin!
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TU Berlin closed 👇🏼 Yes, we need more oomph in the public sector, including uni funds But not more oomph for health & safety officials, imho
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European Central Bank
10 days ago
📣 Deadline extended 📣 We are accepting applications for our Scholarship for Women until 11 May. We offer current and prospective master’s students a €10,000 grant and expert mentoring. Don’t miss out on this opportunity!
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BBE – Berlin Behavioral Economics
10 days ago
Join us today for two fascinating talks exploring behavior, norms, and decision-making! 1 - Ingela Alger (
@ingelaalger.bsky.social
) from the Toulouse School of Economics, presenting on the topic “Norms and norm change - driven by social Kantian preferences.”
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How easy it is to lie
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize
Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/french-professor-florent-montaclair-accused-award-prize
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Team Economy
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Ouch! On subsized "go-anwhere" train tickets 👇🏼
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"[S]uch a value judgment must be grounded in facts. The burden of substantiation is disproportionately higher when a state representative makes such a demeaning assessment of citizens."
@pbahners.bsky.social
's eloquent summary of the court ruling against a 🇩🇪 minister. 👇🏼
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Das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin zu Wolfram Weimer
„Extremismus“ verlangt Fakten: Das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin hat einen Beschluss zum Buchhandlungspreis gefällt. Die Richter erteilen Wolfram Weimer eine gründliche Lektion, die er wahrscheinlich nich...
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/das-verwaltungsgericht-berlin-zu-wolfram-weimer-200797252.html
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Ellingsen and Mohlin on how to formalize different kinds of duties - e.g. asking about the tradeoffabilility between a duty and its material cost. 👏🏼
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Several political parties in 🇩🇪 look for the way out
www.deutschlandfunk.de/gruene-spd-u...
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Online-Plattform von Elon Musk - Grüne, SPD und Linke stellen Aktivitäten auf X ein
Mehrere Bundestagsparteien stellen ihre Aktivitäten auf der Online-Plattform X des US-Unternehmers Elon Musk ein.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/gruene-spd-und-linke-stellen-aktivitaeten-auf-x-ein-100.html
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Good news about battery installment in 🇩🇪 - capacity increase of 8% in only 3 months. Mostly large batteries. -> Less need for gas.
www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/...
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Stromversorgung: Immer mehr Batteriespeicher gebaut
Alleine im ersten Quartal gingen mehr als 2 Gigawattstunden Kapazität in Betrieb. Inzwischen gibt es laut BSW-Solar rund 2,5 Millionen Anlagen.
https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/energie/stromversorgung-immer-mehr-batteriespeicher-gebaut/100221864.html
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Nice graph, and it defies our pessimism
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Gregory Brew
15 days ago
The Carter Doctrine is gone, Hormuz is shut, OPEC is falling apart. The global oil economy is entering a new period of instability. And it's because of US action (or inaction). The consequences will be profound. My latest for
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...
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Opinion | America Will Pay Dearly for Its Energy Arrogance
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/opinion/trump-us-oil-crisis-strait-of-hormuz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fVA.4M32.tnyxPPESqBUE&smid=url-share
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A great thing about markets - they work even when policy doesn't
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„Americans in the town spoke with affection about their German hosts“ I grew up nearby, and we happily return the compliment.
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‘We love our Americans’: the German town rocked by Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops
American soldiers have been part of life in Landstuhl since 1945, giving the area a unique US-German identity
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/02/landstuhl-german-town-rocked-trump-plan-withdraw-us-troops
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Interesting strategy in 🇧🇪 - and financially risky. In 🇩🇪 most economists regret the exit from nuclear but views a return as too expensive.
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Tobias Wolf
15 days ago
Finance that the city needs: The
@eib.org
invests 500 Mio. € in affordable housing in
#Berlin
. The public enterprise
#Howoge
is going to build another ~3,200 residential units by 2029 with at least 50% of the new apartments for 7 €/sqm as social housing for low income households.
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Germany: Financing for affordable housing in Berlin: EIB and HOWOGE agree on EUR 500 million credit facility
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the municipal housing company HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH have signed an unsecured credit facility of EUR 500 million. The EIB financing will support cons...
https://www.eib.org/en/press/all/2026-157-financing-for-affordable-housing-in-berlin-eib-and-howoge-agree-on-eur-500-million-credit-facility
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„Revenge against the chancellor“ Finally a positive headline for Merz
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-...
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USA kündigen Abzug von 5000 Soldaten aus Deutschland an
Trump zieht Konsequenzen aus seinem Streit mit Merz: 5000 US-Soldaten sollen Deutschland verlassen. Das scheint auch persönliche Vergeltung zu sein.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-truppen-abzug-5000-soldaten-donald-trump-friedrich-merz-deutschland-li.3477054
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This week‘s senseless war is in trade
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Carbon Brief
17 days ago
Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels ✍️
@daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
Read here ⬇️
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Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels - Carbon Brief
Countries attending a first-of-its-kind summit have walked away with plans to develop national roadmaps away...
https://buff.ly/q8r3YJd
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Dear 🇪🇺, please don‘t ever confuse love and money
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Bumps in the road but feel welcome to stay Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/w...
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Trump May Pull Troops From Germany. That Isn’t as Scary as It Once Was.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/world/europe/trump-germany-troops-merz-threat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e1A.53tf.s1LySxnXk14z&smid=bs-share
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Improvement, unambiguously
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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin
17 days ago
🧠RFBerlin Research Insight What happens after a far-right protest ends? Research by Sardoschau & Casanueva-Artís, studying PEGIDA and other right-wing organizations, shows hate crimes rise and spread. The culprit: visibility, not just the protest itself. Read here:
www.rfberlin.com/research-ins...
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Learning about the future
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Timely - 🇩🇪‘s government agreed today to raise the tobacco tax, and here is Dirk Engelmann‘s true observation about the distributional asymmetry
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„Science matters. […] And transitioning away from fossil fuels is a very tangible way to follow science.“
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John Hicks, Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, and now it's your turn
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Electrifying 🇫🇷
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France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050
France on Tuesday announced a “first of its kind” plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 during a global conference aimed at breaking reliance on fossil fuels.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/france-unveils-plan-to-ditch-all-fossil-fuels-by-2050/
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Reminder that 🇪🇺 may want to step up
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Just out 📢 How to get people to do their bit? A. appeal in positive words? B. appeal in negative words? C. no appeal at all? And what do policymakers expect? (Hint: Don't let us down by not reading about their false belief.)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Public appeals and collective crisis mitigation
Arrivals of crises often trigger public appeals from policy leaders, attempting to encourage crisis-mitigating behaviors. We ask whether the tone of a…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268126001642?via%3Dihub
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Philipp Heimberger
19 days ago
Germany ranks among the weakest EU performers in real private sector investment growth from 2000 to 2025 (+11.9%). Only Greece (−25.7%), Portugal (−1.1%), and Luxembourg (+1.0%) had lower growth. Highest private investment growth in Romania (+180.1%), Bulgaria, Malta, Lithuania
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Re: throwing good money after bad 👇🏼
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How to spot economists: they pay you for saying what you believe
@valeriaburdea.bsky.social
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Dear real estate economists, this looks serious - any predictions of the impact on house prices in Europe?
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